2014 News & Featured Stories Archive
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September 4, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Marketing corn and soybeans promises to be a challenge for Iowa grain producers who expect to harvest record crops this fall, according to an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach crop markets economist.
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September 2, 2014
AMES, Iowa — More than 300 people attended the dedication program for the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center at Iowa State University on Aug. 29.
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August 28, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences presented research awards Aug. 28 to a professor of economics and an extension agricultural engineer.
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August 28, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) was awarded a $130,750 grant by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to renew a study that helped shed light on the use of recreational lakes.
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August 28, 2014
AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa State University Agricultural Business Club won two major awards at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) conference in Minneapolis in July.
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August 25, 2014
Faculty and staff welcomed students with water, apples and bananas on campus. Although student enrollment continues to increase, class sizes remain small.
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August 22, 2014
AMES, Iowa – A new app will give high school agri-science teachers a tool for teaching biotechnology to their students.
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August 19, 2014
AMES, Iowa — A variety of crop-related topics including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture, cover crops, troublesome weeds, crop diseases, pasture management, corn stalk use and soil fertility will be covered at late-summer field
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August 14, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University agricultural engineer Jay Harmon has been named the interim director of the Iowa Pork Industry Center.
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August 5, 2014The George Washington Carver internship program introduces both college and high school students to various areas of research at Iowa State.
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August 5, 2014
AMES, Iowa - What can be done to help farmers address risks associated with highly variable and unpredictable weather and long term changing climate conditions?
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July 23, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University will host a conference Aug. 20 covering the latest biofilter technologies that can be used to reduce odors from animal-feeding operations.
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July 21, 2014
AMES, Iowa — The 2014 Fruit and Vegetable Field Day Aug. 11 will cover topics for fruit and vegetable farmers at Iowa State University’s Horticulture Research Station.
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July 18, 2014
Floating World, a public art piece, was installed in early July in the Iowa State University Biorenewables Complex on the west side of campus.
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July 17, 2014ISU faculty, staff and students for the first time are able to order fruits and vegetables grown on the Horticulture Research Station near Gilbert.
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July 17, 2014Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey visited Curtiss Hall to talk with the 2014 George Washington Carver interns.
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July 11, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Water quality researchers and extension specialists at Iowa State University have joined with scientists at 11 other land-grant universities in the Mississippi River watershed and the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Hypox
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July 9, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University’s Research and Demonstration Farms will kick off its series of Demonstration Home Garden Field Days July 21 in southwest Iowa.
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July 8, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has created a new team and direction to advise farmers on corn and soybean production.
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July 7, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Six-month progress reports now are available online for research projects funded through the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University.